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YERTEBEATA— A ampsibia. 
Bevised by Tlios. Cornish. 
I HAVE revised Mr. Couch’s list of Cornish reptiles after 
having revised his list of Cornish fishes, and therefore I 
must beg leave to refer to the remarks with which I preface 
that list for an explanation of my process now. 
RBPTILIA — (Eeptiles) . 
“Luth” or “Leathery Turtle” {Sphargis Coriaeea). Borlase 
records the occurrence of this turtle in Cornish seas, and 
there is no reason to doubt the correctness of his observa- 
tion. Certainly several have been taken on the coast of 
Erance, and some on the coast of England. It is a 
powerful swimmer.* 
“ Green Turtle ” {Chelonia viridis.) The turtle which yields the 
green fat of turtle soup, A specimen, covered with 
barnacles and sea weed, was taken alive and in vigorous 
condition, in a drift net about two miles south of Mouse- 
hole Island, in Mount’s Bay, on 5th October, 1874. This 
turtle sometimes appears in English waters, washed over- 
board from ships or out of a wreck, but it is probable that 
this particular specimen found its way across the ocean 
naturally (by coming with the current) not only from the 
state in which it was when taken, but also from the fact 
that within four days of its capture “ pimelepteres cornu- 
biensis,” a tropical fish, was taken alive in Mount’s Bay, out 
of a floating packing case, which was covered with barnacles. 
The fish and the turtle probably floated across the Atlantic 
together in some sort of involuntary company. 
The Sand Lizard f Lacerta agilis) is mentioned by Borlase, and 
retained by Couch as having occurred in Cornwall. They 
* Coucli (appendix p. 149) records the capture of a turtle ofl' ‘‘ the Wolf ” Eock, 
hut its species was not identified, it was taken in August, 1839. 
